So You Want to Force Me to Marry the Regent?

Yu Yunshu, daughter of a salt merchant from Jiangning, marries up into the Lin family of the Marquis of Pingning in the capital, becoming the marquis's second wife.

She spends her life walking on eggshells, but even on her deathbed, she never earns the Lin family's respect.

She enters the marquis's residence full of hope, only to become the meal of Prince Ji, Yan Yiheng, on her wedding night.

The Marquis of Pingning, Lin Pinzhou, personally offers her up.

The Lin family has been deceiving her from the very beginning!

They want her dowry and two million taels to cover their debts.

They want to use her face, so like that of the regent's beloved, to secure the marquis's future.

After news arrives that the regent is dead, Lin Pinzhou takes as his second wife the younger sister of his former wife, his concubine.

Their illegitimate son is already seventeen...

Yu Yunshu is thrown into a water prison, unable to live or die!

Reborn, she finds herself back on the night of her wedding nightmare...

She has to escape the capital and go home to her father...

Looking at the cold-faced prince blocking her path, she says, "The Prince Ji residence is quite spacious."

Yu Yunshu scoffs. "Your Highness, will you marry Yun Niang?"

Silence.

Later, the regent wraps an arm around her waist, strokes her brow, and begs Yu Yunshu to give him two children in three years.

Yu Yunshu: "Get lost!"

Warnings: 1. Enter at your own risk: an old-school, angsty melodrama. 2. The heroine grows, but is fundamentally honest. 3. Please add to your library!

*The blurb may change. The novel itself is the final authority.

Please add my next novel of the same type to your library: I, the Spoiled Son-in-Law of the Chief Minister

After her beloved mother dies in childbirth, Shen Nian'an, daughter of a duke, becomes the person her father, Shen Yong, hates most.

Shen Yong dotes on his adopted daughter, Bai Xiuxiu, and endlessly berates and neglects his own daughter.

When Shen Nian'an is murdered, Shen Yong learns of it and says, "She should have paid for her life long ago... Don't hold a funeral! I'd rather throw away a copper coin than spend it on her!"

Shen Nian'an returns after killing zombies, only to learn that she is nothing but a disposable extra in a book.

The original heroine, Bai Xiuxiu, is blessed with good fortune, and one word from her sends everyone rushing to her side.

Bai Xiuxiu wants Shen Nian'an's engagement to Cui Zhirui, the eldest legitimate son of the assistant chief minister.

She drugs and frames Shen Nian'an, while insisting she take part in a street-side ball-tossing match to select a husband.

In her previous life, not long after Shen Nian'an refused, she was burned alive at her mother's residence, the Princess of Qinghe's estate.

This time, Shen Nian'an returns, picks up the red silk ball, and looks down at the crowd...

A handsome face, striking and cool. Why is he here too?

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Gu Yeqing is the powerful villain in the book, constantly obstructing the male and female leads from claiming the position of chief minister.

He even goes so far as to castrate himself and attach himself to the empress dowager, creating a major conflict for the protagonists and ultimately earning a death by slow slicing.

Only after reading the book does Shen Nian'an realize:

It turns out they are both just pitiful people with a confused, rotten father!

When she is framed and left naked, he covers her with his clothes and carries away the unconscious wild man who is barely dressed.

She sobs, "I didn't do it. I've been framed... You have to believe me!"

"I believe you!"

The man's voice is low, his gaze steady, his features captivating.

This time, she'll trust him too...

At worst, she'll be without a father, mother, or anyone by her side, and have to go through life alone again.

She never expected that this one throw would make her the financial backer of the youngest chief minister in the Great Jin dynasty.

By the time she has spoiled her own son-in-law into becoming chief minister, their marriage contract will have lasted more than twenty years.

Even when he comes home, he still picks a pure white gardenia for her and tells her, "It's pretty. Keep it. Don't turn everything into medicine..."

Theme: My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's.